The world’s most prestigious water award

CJSWP Selection

CANADIAN STOCKHOLM JUNIOR WATER PRIZE SELECTION

The Canadian Stockholm Junior Water Prize Committee is comprised of individuals representing water and wastewater associations from across Canada.

The CSJWP winner is selected from projects submitted for the prize at the Canada-wide Science fair. Regional fairs are held throughout Canada with winning projects being selected to proceed to the Canada-wide event.

The first part of the selection process occurs at the CWSF where all students who submitted projects for the prize give a 5 minute presentation of their project and then judges will allowed 5 minutes for questions. All projects are judged by a panel of judges provided by the CWSF judging committee along with the lead judges.

All projects are judged using a consistent scoring template taking into account, scientific thought and understanding, original creativity, project report, visual display and oral presentation.

After all projects had been reviewed the score sheets are submitted to the lead judges who tabulates the scores using a spreadsheet format. This will result in the projects being ranked based on total scores from all judges. The top three scoring projects are then selected to proceed as finalists to the second stage of the competition.

The finalists will be informed at the awards presentation that they were moving on to the next stage of the competition. They will have a deadline to submit a full paper on their project in the format consistent with the US SJWP National Paper Guidelines.

The papers are evaluated by the three main judges. Papers are reviewed and scored for Relevance, Creativity, Methodology, Subject Knowledge, Practical Skills and Report Presentation.

In the final selection each judge presents their scoring of the papers and summarise the reasons for their scoring choices and given a opportunity to express their reason why one paper should be chosen as the winner.

When all judges were comfortable with the process of selection and the fairness of the reviewing a final selection is made and the winner notified and invited to proceed to the International SJWP competition.